John

During the Atlantic crossing we celebrated Christmas (as best we could). My youngest son, Lawrence, had managed to bring with him a Christmas stocking with gifts. One of the gifts was a nautical quizbook for sailors which included a chapter on nautical tattoos and their meanings. For example, an anchor Read more…

After a long trip back from Grenada, via Barbados and Amsterdam, we are finally back in Hamburg. When we arrived in the airport we were faced with piles and piles of luggage in the baggage reclaim area – literally piles of bags. Amongst them were a few poor souls peering Read more…

Whilst in Germany a friend of ours told us that La Palma was experiencing many earthquakes. I checked and she was right. The earthquakes were very frequent, every few minutes, and constituted what is known as an earthquake “swarm”. This is a good indication that magma (lava) was moving under Read more…

A friend of ours had told us that it was possible to visit a “Lava Tube” called “Cueva de Las Palomas” or “tubo volcánico de Todoque” near Todoque, which was in turn not too far from the marina. I’m no volcanologist, but I really do like volcanoes and anything to Read more…

January of 2021 brought some unusual and sometimes spectacular weather conditions to the Canaries. Not so much by the way of wind, in fact very little, but really high waves, lots of rain and snow (!!). We had a weather forecast for a substantial amount of rain (the Palmeros [Locals] Read more…